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Young Arabs

Michael Graziano, E. Joong-eun Park

Young Arabs

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Young Arabs takes viewers inside an elite preparatory school in heart of Cairo, Egypt. The film offers a quiet encounter with a collection of students as they reflect on God, America, terrorism, marriage, the Middle East, and more. Despite being founded and still managed by French-trained Jesuit priests, the students and faculty of this all-boys school are roughly 60% Muslim and 40% Christian. By virtue of lineage, moreover, these young men are expected to help lead the Middle East into a new and uncertain world - a fact that, along with the socioeconomic and religious complexion of the school, gives their views particular significance.

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SCREENINGS & AWARDS

The University of Chicago Lab School, 2008 

The Latin School of Chicago, 2008

The Midwest Independent Film Festival in Chicago, 2008

The Chicago Green Festival, 2008

Silverdocs, Washington, DC, 2008

Best Short Documentary, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham, AL, 2008

Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada, 2008

Middle East Studies Association's FilmFest, Tucson, AZ, 2008 

Detroit Docs, 2008

Victoria Film Festival, Canada, 2009

Iowa City International Documentary Festival, 2009

Short Film Award, AAA/Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video & Multimedia Festival, 2009

International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009



Young Arabs


Directed by 

Michael Graziano

Kogonada


Produced by 

Michael Graziano

Ian Rogan


Music by 

Paul Duncan


Cinematography by 

Michael Graziano

Kogonada

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